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Raw Whale
To you, he’s Free Willy. To us, he’s a tasty morsel.
Dinner with Oliver
We’re at an izakaya ordering all the bizarre foods: sliced pig snout, raw horse meat, fried chicken skin, grilled bait, and potatoes with fish egg sauce.
And, of course, we’re giving our livers a workout: beer, shochu and now sake.
Sleeping Tony
【GPS情報】 http://walk.eznavi.jp/map/?datum=0&unit=0&lat=+36.10.21.32&lon=+139.42.37.22&fm=0
Just testing to see what happens if I send this to the blog.
Look at the legs on that kid. He’s going to be tall like his old man.
At the dentist
Tony unfortunately inhereted his mother’s teeth and gets cavities all the time. I, on the other hand, have never had one.
Our dentist is high-tech. X-rays show up instantly on a laptop and get stored on a server instead of a file cabinet.
[tags]moblog, photo, Tony[/tags]
Texting
Today I realized that it’s been a long time since I’ve moblogged. Here’s the scene on the train I’m on. 5 out of 6 people are texting on their keitai.
Andy, Oliver, Tony
Oliver, a 19 year old podcast listener from the UK who’s trekking around Japan for a few months, stayed over at our house last night. Our boys were really, really excited to meet him. All three slept on the living room floor, but not before spending at least an hour in the dark making all sorts of noises that only little boys can make. (armpit farts, pig snorts, unexplainable very loud banging, etc.) I’m assuming it was Andy and Tony entertaining their guest. Tony woke up this morning looking very hung over. As long as the walls weren’t splattered with blood and nobody woke up in a pool of their own vomit (or somebody else’s), I’m just glad they enjoyed themselves.
In fact, you’re all invited to visit, just as long as all 4,000 or so of you don’t visit all at the same time.
P.S. My site was down earlier because the database server’s hard drive died and had to be rebuilt from a backup. I’m very surprised they’re not using RAID. Very bad sign. If I weren’t so lazy I’d ditch Dreamhost for a more reliable operation.
Herro flom the hospital
I do reveal a lot about my life, but not everything. Figuring nobody really would want to know, I left out the fact that my body decided to stop pooping about two weeks ago, and before that multiple blood tests showed elevated ALP and white blood cell levels. Then yesterday I pooped nothing but some snot and a wee bit of blood, and that immediately got my attention. So I consulted Dr. Google with my symptoms and came up with “cholecystitis,” a.k.a an inflamed gall bladder.
At the hospital I got a second opinion from a real doctor, (Just in case. Like HAL from 2001, Google is always right, but you never know.) The real doctor said I need to take a really, really good poop and prescribed me some laxatives normally used only by zoo veterinarians and college fraternity pranksters, because the over-the-counter laxatives I’ve been popping like Tic-Tacs aren’t doing the trick. And I’m going in for a sonogram tomorrow to check under the hood. (I can’t wait to see my own liver!)
So I’m sitting here in front of the computer now, listening to my stomach gurgle and stinking up my little home office like you wouldn’t believe. (Andy came into visit a few minutes ago but immediately fled in severe olfactorial distress.) So far the horse pills haven’t done their thing, but I feel like a rocket on a launch pad, counting down till blast off.
I guess this is my body’s way of saying, “Welcome to middle age. Paybacks are hell.”
Why Japan is Better, reason #629
Our stuffed animals have testicles.
Kabukicho HDR Photos
Kabukicho HDR photoset
HDR (High Dynamic Range) photography is a process of taking a set of underexposed, properly exposed, and overexposed images and blending them together into one incredibly detailed photo.
I took these last night, and frankly, I’m not as wowed as I expected to be. One thing for sure though is they show Kabukicho exactly as I picture it in my mind. My self-assignment was to take ordinary scenes and compose them in a way that makes people want to stop and look at them like artwork in a gallery, but at the same time make them feel as though they’re experiencing the location itself, not just a photo of it. I haven’t found what I was looking for yet, but I’m still going through the shots, and I intend to go back there and try again and again until I’m satisfied. I also want to do the same thing in Ginza.
Come to think of it, I should really go to Yoshiwara. Only thing is, I wonder if I’d be as left alone as I was in Kabukicho. Yoshiwara seems like a more close-knit place, and they might not appreciate an outsider who doesn’t follow the rules. The clientele there expects privacy and anonymity, not some foreigner with a camera and tripod tromping around like he owns the place.
If you like the photos in the set, keep checking back. I’ll be posting more. My new header image is also HDR. I like it!
To learn more about HDR photography, this tutorial is a good place to start.